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During the July and August back-to-school period, the Urban Outfitters team in North America succeeded in improving women's and men's apparel comps
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2024 Q2
16 Sep 23
Customer demand for fashion at the Anthropologie, Free People and FP Movement brands remained strong throughout Q2
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2024 Q2
16 Sep 23
we did see improvement in North America's women's and men's apparel in the back-to-school season versus last year
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2024 Q2
16 Sep 23
In Europe, the weakness was concentrated in the UK, while the rest of Europe continued to see positive Retail segment comps.
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2024 Q2
16 Sep 23
In Q2, the apparel teams also improved full-price sales, lowered markdown rates and enhanced the IMU and MMU, but total brand comp sales remained disappointingly weak.
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2024 Q2
16 Sep 23
So far in August, total Retail segment comps are in line with first half results, and we believe total Retail segment comps in Q3 could look very similar to both previous quarters.
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2024 Q2
16 Sep 23
We exceeded pre-pandemic traffic, conversion and comps in stores and online.
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2024 Q2
16 Sep 23
The Anthropologie Group delivered an 11% Retail segment comp, marking our 10th consecutive quarter of positive sales comps.
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2024 Q2
16 Sep 23
The Anthropologie Group delivered an 11% Retail segment comp, marking our 10th consecutive quarter of positive sales comps.
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2024 Q2
16 Sep 23
Effective brand marketing drove robust traffic increases to our website and stores, including strong growth in new customers.
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2024 Q2
16 Sep 23
Sales comps at the Urban Outfitters brand remain disappointed in Q1. That weakness has largely continued into May.
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2024 Q1
8 Jul 23
Basically, the price that we have – at prices that we are commanding have gone up in low double – low single digits.
And some of that is being driven by the receipt pricing and some of it is being driven by lower markdowns and some of it is being driven by mix.
So those things in combination have driven very nice AUR increases at the Anthropologie and Free People brands.
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2024 Q1
8 Jul 23
In Europe, the weakness was concentrated in the UK while the rest of Europe continued to see positive comps.
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2024 Q1
8 Jul 23
Customer demand for fashion at the Anthropologie, Free People and FP Movement brands accelerated in Q1 versus last year and remained elevated throughout the quarter. The strength was driven by better fashion execution and stronger marketing, which created more customer traffic
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2024 Q1
8 Jul 23
So incremental to some of the AUR improvement, we are seeing increased transactions across both brands. And fortunately, I think that we’re probably gaining some market share because of the high level of the brands are operating at right now.
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2024 Q1
8 Jul 23
The third is the product mix is a little bit different this year. And in some cases, it’s creating higher AUR that with – along with lower markdowns are pushing the AUR so that same number of transactions will yield higher sales and higher comps.
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2024 Q1
8 Jul 23
And the good news is that sales to date in May have maintained the pace with the exception of Free People where we’ve actually seen a reasonably sharp increase in their digital business.
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2024 Q1
8 Jul 23
The quarter stayed pretty constant, a little bit stronger in February, but I would say, reasonably constant.
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2024 Q1
8 Jul 23
we are going to be spending more money on marketing to get new customers
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2023 Q3
17 Dec 22
FY '23, sales were largely driven by increases in AUR and AOV
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2023 Q3
17 Dec 22